I’d still vote for Bernie, but I don’t think he wants to run again. I’d also vote for Sen. Warren.

I generally don’t (think I) vote based on demographics. I am more interested in platform (primarily) and past performance (secondarily).

It’s not Tuesday, but we got TACO!

“full body autonomy” includes but is not limited to “no one [is] forced to let anyone else use their uterus”. I don’t believe I am sabotaging my own argument, but I’m an idiot, so maybe you just need to be more meticulous in explaining how I am (doing that).

I bring it up because authoritarians often try to restrict bodily autonomy, particularly around uteruses, when trying to do population control (up or down). In fact, while it may not be a acceptable, mainstream view, you don’t have to look to hard to find a USian on the right claiming that abortion must (become/stay) illegal because of the “birth rate crisis”.

Yeah, I’m not worried about running out of humans globally, and I do think immigration is a fine way for a country to choose to maintain their population.

There’s probably something to be said around cultural preservation, and maybe that’s a bit easier for “native born” persons. But, I don’t know the steelman version of that argument, if there is one.

The problem is the encouragement in general

I don’t see why that’s a problem. I think it could come in the form of actual benefits, not a just verbal haranguing / extolling based on (not) having children, but that it’s good for the birth rate to be slightly above replacement and correcting any divergence should be encouraged.

Capitalism contributes, yes. But, if humanity stays below replacement rate, humanity goes extinct.

Also, no matter how you distribute resources, there are periods of life when your productivity is less that what you need to survive. Everyone has this for many years at the beginning of their life, and those lucky enough to live long enough will have this toward the end of their lives, as aging is the disability that comes for us all. The proven method to sustain persons during those periods is to have enough people in their productive years; it generally requires more than the replacement rate. And, if that doesn’t happen, the less productive suffer and die more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufmu1WD2TSk

All that said, I’m against encouraging teenage pregnancy, and for full bodily autonomy – no one should be forced to let anyone else use their uterus.

Don’t link to CSAM! /s

Hebephilia vs. pedophilia? That’s a defense I’ve seen before. Didn’t work for creepy Internet boyz. Let’s see if it works for the Republican party.

Depends on the progressive, I’d say. But, they are certainly more willing to, so I might have been better to leave that adjective out of my comment.

This [FPTP] is the weapon of the enemy, we do NOT (need to) USE it.

Any Condorcet method would yield a significant improvement in representation accuracy, but it would trigger one heck of a party re-alignment.

As far as I know yes.

But, D congresspersons rarely speak against party leadership.

I still think she’s insane, but I wish we had more progressive, D congresspersons that had this attitude of serving The People instead of the DNC.

LOL got me

You can’t try to play chess when the other team is playing rugby…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing

It wouldn’t surprise me if Miller was one of those “Skinny guys [that] fight 'til they’re burger.”

I thought he might have been the source of Elmu’s black eye for a while.

I disagree that an IQ restriction would be an improvement. It would just be another tool used by authority to marginalize. Competency tests have been used as such in both the U.S. South and Nazi Germany.

Improving the electorate and having the output of the voting process reflect their will is the only way forward.

IQ is a poor metric (for just about anything).

We do need to work on election reform so that our elected representatives are more representative. Getting more people to vote (turn out in the U.S. is fairly low), avoiding partizan gerrymandering, using something other than FPtP.

the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion

– Treaty of Tripoli, 1797

Tom! Save the hammer for The Man.

;)

I hope you never have to experience a life-changing health event.

As far as I know, there’s intentionally no recall procedure for federal offices. So, the system is designed so that districts do put up with turncoats. I would be open to changing that, but I’m not interested in championing such a change.